{"id":1714,"date":"2021-05-28T09:50:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T14:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/well-being\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:22:33","slug":"uw-oshkosh-helps-break-the-stigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/well-being\/2021\/05\/28\/uw-oshkosh-helps-break-the-stigma\/","title":{"rendered":"UW Oshkosh Helps Break the Stigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that <strong>1 in 5 U.S. adults*<\/strong> experience mental health illness?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1716 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/well-being\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/2021\/05\/Picture-e1622155238439.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/well-being\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/2021\/05\/Picture-e1622155238439.png 528w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/well-being\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/2021\/05\/Picture-e1622155238439-300x64.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For this reason, UW Oshkosh has developed resources over the last year to help make their employees and supervisors more aware of the valuable (and often no-cost) tools that can provide mental health support to them and their loved ones. Help UW Oshkosh continue to <strong>break the stigma<\/strong> about mental health illnesses by sharing some of the resources and tools on their <strong><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/uwosh.edu\/hr\/mental-health-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental Health Support web page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour everyday words and actions either contribute to or eliminate the stigma associated with issues like mental health, suicide and substance abuse\u201d -Mettie Spiess, International Mental Health Speaker, Leadership Trainer, Stigma Crusher<\/p>\n<p>*From the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nami.org\/NAMI\/media\/NAMI-Media\/Infographics\/NAMI_YouAreNotAlone_2020_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018You are Not Alone\u2019<\/a> infographic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that 1 in 5 U.S. adults* experience mental health illness? For this reason, UW Oshkosh has developed resources over the last year to help make their employees and supervisors more aware of the valuable (and often no-cost) tools that can provide mental health support to them and their loved ones. Help UW [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well-being-journeys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3917,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/3917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}